By the way, that was supposed to be encouragement! I fully appreciate it must be incredibly difficult watching everything you eat in an attempt to lose weight - especially when you're hungry. But it must be piss easy in comparison to the living hell of trying to cut down on drinking when you absolutely have to.
I'm not belittling your achievement, far from it. A year later, you don't drink.
A year from now, I'll still HAVE to eat. Every day. Two, three, four times. Just enough, but not too much, a knife edge. That forcing yourself to drink that you had to at first? It'll be like that forever. Forever. For the rest of my life, I'll have to be on constant guard.
Smokers can never smoke again. Alcoholics can never drink again, after that initial detox.
Every single day of my life I'll be presented with a temptation.
Drinkers can avoid situations where drink is present. Ditto smokers.
I, and nearly everyone else know that what alcoholics have is a kind of disease.
Fat people are pointed at in the street. It's just being 'weak-willed', a lazy bastard, a greedy guts.
This can kill me, too. Just slower.
